Gov. Abigail Spanberger: "The scale of the corruption is unprecedented. There's the cover up of the Epstein files, the crypto scams, cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms, putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation's capital."

CHATTANOOGA: “DO Y’ALL HAVE A WARRANT? What’s the suspicion of crime, they’re brown?” ICE trespasses on private property as they conduct their racial profiling terror campaign. An ex ICE lawyer just testified they are trained to disregard the law. Full: www.facebook.com/share/r/1CPF...

The Taliban are burning musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an assault on all culture

Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

"Three Labor Department staffers, all political appointees, accused the husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer of touching them inappropriately... "He remains banned from department headquarters amid an inquiry by the department’s inspector general www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

oh dear Kash Patel was using the FBI's private jet to visit his mom... "The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm..." www.ms.now/news/senator...

It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

In 1994 Ukraine agreed to surrender the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in deal known as the Budapest Memorandum.  In exchange for giving up 1,900 nuclear warheads- U.S., Russia & UK pledged to respect Ukraine's existing borders and sovereignty & refrain from use of force against Ukraine.

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Grok insists my dissertation adviser was a man I've never met and says my first book won several prizes that don't even exist but I'm sure it'll work out fine to give it access to classified defense systems.

Wow. Mike Johnson only took 2 Qs during today's House R presser - he usually takes at least 4 - and neither was about Rep. Tony Gonzales. Johnson is refusing to call for Gonzales's resignation following the release of texts showing he pressured an aide who later committed suicide for sexual photos.

Mike Johnson thinks it's "detestable" for Democrats to boycott Trump's State of the Union, but he's perfectly fine with the cover-up of child sex trafficking and the disturbing details surfacing about Rep. Tony Gonzales.

"People have to give birth in their homes in secret, because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them....This is lived reality right now. This is the country you live in." JVL and Tim Miller on what they saw in Minneapolis.

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

A whistleblower just disclosed that FBI experts were delayed by AT LEAST A DAY in deploying to investigate Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Why? There was an FBI plane and pilot shortage… because Kash Patel was using them for personal flights.

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

Jeffrey Epstein’s close associate, Jean Luc Brunel, was allegedly given immunity back in 2016 to flip on Epstein, but then he went silent. I walk through the details, incl. the DOJ’s handwritten notes documenting Brunel’s involvement in the global trafficking operation. youtu.be/4lJPOodwNWg?...

NEW: Trump’s DoJ ordered New York SVU and New Mexico to stop investigating Epstein in 2019. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

The Texas Republican is facing calls from fellow House Republicans to resign, following allegations of an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide. n.pr/4c6Ut6w

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

"'Send me a sexy pic,' Rep. Tony Gonzales texted Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, then director of his regional district office in Uvalde. Santos-Aviles replied that she’d had a rough week and 'you don't really want a hot picture of me.' 'Yes I do,' Gonzales texted, adding, 'Hurry.'"

The women's Olympic hockey roster for Team USA rejected an invitation to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday.

Rep. Lauren Boebert R-CO is calling for Rep. Tony Gonzales R-TX to resign, after the release of text messages which indicate the Texas Congressman pressed a staffer to send him explicit photos of herself.

About $1.7 billion flowed from two accounts at Binance, whose founder was pardoned by Trump, to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions, investigators discovered. David Yaffe-Bellany @pekingmikenyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

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US embassy in Beirut orders departure of government personnel 'due to security situation' reut.rs/3ZS7ERy

NEWS: Former ambassador Lord Peter Mandelson has been ARRESTED in the UK after police searched two of his homes as part of an investigation into alleged misconduct in public office tied to the Epstein probe.

One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)

This is the same Sean Feucht who is partnering with the federal government to hold a series of Christian nationalist worship events across the country. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht is outraged that Muslims gathered to pray in Times Square last week: "[Muslims are] releasing demonic prayers and decrees over the city. Are you kidding me? In America!"

Gunman shot dead in Mar-a-Lago was ‘fixated on Epstein files’ and avid Trump supporter, friends say.

BREAKING: The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him. trib.al/tHO6gez

it doesn't get enough attention that there is clearly something seriously wrong with the president's health and the White House is covering it up

Breaking: Former British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson has been arrested amid investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

Prior to 2015, if any candidate for elected office had begun a public statement or tweet with this sentence, he or she would have been laughed out of public life. Now, Americans re-elect them as commander-in-chief. I will never allow myself to become numb to his insanity.

Update from the US frontline with Iran; a significant amount of toilets onboard the USS Gerald Ford are out of order, sailors are being forced to wait in hour long cues to take a shit and the mission was extended from 6 months to 8 months, many are promising to quit the Navy.

"The President Must Be Removed From Office" Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit. zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

Judges say Trump officials violated court orders on immigration 35 times since August, per NYT. Between this and tariff ruling, it's a reminder that the main pillars of MAGA nationalism (immig/tariffs) are the things most deeply entangled with his authoritarianism newrepublic.com/article/2068...

A retired federal agent rehired by ICE as part of Kristi Noem’s mass recruitment push accidentally discharged his gun in a hotel room—and the bullet ended up in the headboard of the bed in the room next door.

The "Last Week Tonight" delivered a damning deep dive on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔 Paul Mitchell: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃 As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of starting a third world war and said stopping Moscow’s invasion would be a “victory for the whole world.”